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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Whitechapel 1864

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: TABLE II—Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases, for the Three Months ending 31st December, 1864

TABLE II—Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases, for the Three Months ending 31st December, 1864

DistrictsSmallPoxMeaselsScarlet FeverDiphtheriaHooping CoughDiarrhoeaFeverTotalRemarks
Artillery01001024
Spitalfields029020720
Mile End New Town1210061424Workhouse
Whitechapel, North024036116
Whitechapel Church03101128Hospital
Goodman's Fields011142211
Aldgate040021310
Total11516113163193
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding quarter, 18636446171252128

Table: TABLE III—Showing the Ages at Death in the Workhouse, and in the London Hospital, for the Quarter ending 31st December, 1864

TABLE III—Showing the Ages at Death in the Workhouse, and in the London Hospital, for the Quarter ending 31st December, 1864

0 and under 11 and under 55 and under 2020 and under 4040 and under 6060 and under 8080 and upwardsTotal Males, 50 Females, 41Corresponding Quarter of 1863
Workhouse121218252949181
London Hospital011182935170Males, 75 Females, 35 110118